Weitzberg is Jewish, and Genis was clearly making an anti-Semitic reference to a potential political rival. The incident occurred at a Costa Mesans for Responsible Government meeting late last month.

Costa Mesa Councilmember Sandra Genis

Pro-union, anti-city charter Genis has been in and out of CM politics since the late ’80s. She wrote of her comments yesterday, “clarifying” them in a Daily Pilot piece by Bradley Zint. In an email, she excused her statement which had “been misconstrued to have a meaning I never intended” — perhaps to low-information voters, but it’s evident to any mature, educated adult that she was inferring Costa Mesa and its politics had no room for Jews.